"These non-vocal version are especially prized by collectors. Regardless, this series (along with OKeh's Odeon ONY- series) appears to not have been available for sale in the United States. Parlophone released the Beatles' albums up to ""Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"". Subsequent releases – ""The Beatles"" (the White Album), ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Abbey Road"" and ""Let It Be"" – were issued on the Beatles' own Apple record label, distributed by EMI and bearing Parlophone catalogue numbers. The Beatles deal is said to be one of the cheapest made by Parlophone Records. Companies used and abused the Beatles' name, producing everything"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture."
"and cover art, track listing and running order in North America. Starting with ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" the Beatles' albums were released unmodified. Capitol stopped production of the US versions in the early 1980s and after the remaining inventory was sold off, the original UK LPs were released in the US in 1987. EMI first offered US distribution of the Beatles' records to their American subsidiary, Capitol Records, in 1962. After Capitol declined, a five-year agreement was reached with Vee-Jay Records, an independent (mostly rhythm and blues) label based in Chicago, as part of a deal for the"
"UK album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", both by the Beatles. The label also achieved placement of seven singles at No. 1 during 1964, when it also claimed top spot on the UK Albums Chart for 40 weeks. Parlophone continued as a division of EMI, until it was merged into the Gramophone Co. Ltd. on 1 July 1965. On 1 July 1973, the Gramophone Co. Ltd. was renamed as EMI Records Limited. On 28 September 2012, regulators officially approved Universal Music Group (UMG)'s planned acquisition of EMI, on condition that its EMI Records Ltd. group would be divested from"
"stereo only. In the UK, the following album, ""Yellow Submarine"", was the last to be shipped in mono. The mono version of ""The Beatles"" was made available worldwide on 9 September 2009, as part of ""The Beatles in Mono"" CD boxed set. A reissue of the original mono LP was released worldwide in September 2014. The album's sleeve was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, in collaboration with McCartney. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name, in Helvetica,"
"unrecognizable forms, beginning in 1967 the Beatles gained full approval of album titles and cover art, track listing and running order in North America. Starting with ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" Beatles' albums were released unmodified. Issue of 45 RPM singles featuring album tracks was also stopped. Instead non-album tracks were issued as singles between album releases. Beginning in 1948, Capitol Records were released in the UK on the Capitol label by Decca. After its 1955 acquisition of Capitol, EMI took over distribution in 1956. EMI's Parlophone unit handled Capitol label marketing in the UK in later years. In"
"Sgt. Pepper's (Big Daddy album) Sgt. Pepper's is a tribute album consisting of covers of the entirety of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. The album was recorded by Big Daddy in 1992 and features covers which combine the lyrics and some musical elements from the original Beatles versions with stylistic elements of certain genres and musicians, mostly ones popularized in the 1920s-1950s. The album's release coincided with the 25th anniversary of the original Beatles album. It was the band's last album until 2013's ""Smashing Songs of Stage and Screen"". The album's cover art was directly inspired"
"first met John Lennon. Fraser art-directed the cover for The Beatles' 1967 LP ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" – he dissuaded the group from using the original design, a psychedelic artwork created by the design collective The Fool, instead suggesting the pop artist, Peter Blake, who created the famous collage cover design. Fraser also gave McCartney a small painting of an apple by René Magritte which is believed to have been the inspiration for the name and logo of the Beatles' record company, Apple Records. It was also through Fraser that Richard Hamilton was selected to design the poster"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin, featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. It was released in July 1978, as the soundtrack to the film ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", which starred the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Steve Martin. The project was managed by the Robert Stigwood Organisation (RSO). In 1975, the original plans for the album were suspended due to a dispute between Columbia and RSO. RSO invested $12 million into this soundtrack and the profit offset set against costs such as"
"by releasing ""Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" on June 1. Much of the music was broadcast by certain radio stations, particularly Radio Caroline and Radio London, which introduced the DJ John Peel and his ""Perfumed Garden"" show. The events were recorded and promoted by the newspaper ""International Times"", also known as ""IT"", and the magazine ""Oz"". Notable graphic artists included Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (who were Nigel Weymouth and Michael English), The Fool (a Dutch group, endorsed by the Beatles), and Martin Sharp. Many of the fashion shops, known as boutiques, such as Granny Takes A Trip, Hung"
"was released on EMI's fledgling Studio 2 label, primarily to show off EMI's mid-1960s advances and developments in stereo recording techniques. Any singles taken off the LP for foreign markets were in that format's standard mono, however, making these unusual items for UK collectors of the group. By 1967 the band's name had been truncated to ""Sounds Inc"". The Beatles invited Cameron, Holmes and West to be the saxophone section on their track ""Good Morning Good Morning"", from the album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". After this guest appearance, Sounds Inc left EMI and released a solitary single on"
"released only in stereo. Many feel that the mono mixes reflect the true intention of the band. For example, in the case of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", all the mono mixes were done together with the Beatles themselves, throughout the recording of the album, whereas the stereo mixes were done in only six days by Abbey Road personnel George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush after the album had been finished, with none of the Beatles attending. George Harrison commented: Amazon.com advertised the set as a limited edition item in the United States, and less than a month"
"whose Jelly Babies were allegedly The Beatles' favourite; the shows went out each evening at 7.30 for 40 days of the tour. In 1967, Radio London got an eight-day UK exclusive on the ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", playing it first on 12 May 1967 – the album was in the shops on 1 June 1967 – but Everett had left the station on 21 March that year. A Cadillac car dealer in Abilene, Texas, who became one of the investors associated with Pierson, nominated Philip Birch, a J. Walter Thompson account director who had relocated from JWT's offices"
"Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father is a 1988 multi-artist compilation of 1980s artists recording new versions of the songs on The Beatles album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". The album was produced by the ""New Musical Express"" to raise money for Childline, the charity founded by the now-defunct BBC1 consumer programme ""That's Life!"" It was also intended to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the original release of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" on 1 June 1967. The title is a pun on the song ""Lloyd George Knew My Father"". A single released to"
"Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ""The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine ""Rolling Stone"", and a related book published in 2005. The lists presented were compiled based on votes from selected rock musicians, critics, and industry figures. The lists predominantly feature American and British music from the 1960s and the 1970s, topped by The Beatles’ 1967 album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", with a top 10 that featured four entries from The Beatles (#1, 3, 5 and 10), two from Bob Dylan (#4 and 9), and one"
"Fire was the only track he did not work on. According to author Robert Rodriguez, Martin later rued his involvement in ""Sgt. Pepper"". Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin, featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. It was released in July 1978, as the soundtrack to the film ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", which starred the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Steve Martin. The project was managed by the Robert Stigwood Organisation (RSO). In 1975, the original plans for the album were suspended due"
"to the Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song) ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and first recorded and released in 1967, on the album of the same name by the Beatles. The song appears twice on the album: as the opening track (segueing into ""With a Little Help from My Friends""), and as ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"", the penultimate track (segueing into ""A Day in the Life""). As the title song, the lyrics introduce the fictional band that performs on the album. Since its original"
"by Howard Goodall, was televised on the BBC, PBS and Arte to commemorate the anniversary. The occasion was also celebrated with posters, billboards and other decorations at notable locations around the world, including a billboard in Times Square. The 50th anniversary edition of ""Sgt. Pepper"" topped the UK Albums Chart after its release. According to Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald: The Beatles Additional musicians and production In the US, the album sold 2,360,423 copies by 31 December 1967 and 3,372,581 copies by the end of the decade. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is"
"""Billboard"" album charts and #2 on the UK album charts. The album cover features paintings of the members by many British painters, who were commissioned by Peter Blake, designer of the cover of The Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" album. Artists include Tom Phillips, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, David Hockney, Clive Barker, R. B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield, and Blake himself. In 1992, Sincer Records re-released the album on CD. It only held the songs from the original LP. In 1997, the album was re-mixed, remastered and re-released by MCA Records with three outtakes as well as"
"recordings include ""Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father"", a multi-artist charity compilation released by the ""NME"" in 1988, and Big Daddy's 1992 ""Sgt. Pepper"" album, a release that Moore recognised as ""the most audacious"" of all the interpretations of the Beatles' LP up to 1997. All songs written by Lennon–McCartney, except ""Within You Without You"" by George Harrison. Track lengths and lead vocals per Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald. On 26 May 2017, ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" was reissued for the album's 50th anniversary as a six-disc box set. The first CD contains a new stereo remix of the"
"Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a track-for-track mash-up of The Beach Boys’ ""Pet Sounds"" with The Beatles’ ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" by Clayton Counts, posted on his blog. It was released under the pseudonym ""The Beachles"" and received favorable mentions in ""Entertainment Weekly"" and ""USA Today"", as well as blogs around the world. Sometime around September 8, 2006, Counts received a cease and desist order from EMI's attorneys. Notably, the letter included a demand for Counts to hand over the IP addresses of everyone who downloaded or streamed the songs."
"""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". Garrod and Lofthouse printed for most UK record companies outside Decca, and manufactured covers for France through a subsidiary Imprimerie du Nord. They were given special permission to press the Rolling Stones' ""Beggars Banquet"" (one of the first gatefold sleeves) and ""Sticky Fingers"" (manufactured with a metal zip glued down the front), as Decca's in-house staff could not manage the complex production to the volume required. The company dissolved in the early 1980s, by which time sleeve manufacturing could be done by any generic process, and cassette and compact disc sleeves did not require"
"had already been finished were discarded so that the group could finally produce an album where they would decide the songs, the arrangements, etc. More importantly, they would provide all the vocals and instrumentals, using sessions musicians only as an addition to their own. The album was released on May 22, 1967 and charted at the No. 1 in the U.S. It stayed at that position for only one week, and was then replaced by The Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". It then began a run of 11 consecutive weeks at the No. 2 position as ""Sgt. Pepper's"
"shown in November 2006 around the world in selected picture houses, theatres and cinemas to winners of fans competitions and the press. It was also broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. In Japan, a box set was also released of all their singles to coincide with the album. The cover was designed by Sir Peter Blake, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", but also well recognised within the genre for his work on the cover of Paul Weller's ""Stanley Road"" album. According to Blake, he chose all"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song) ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), and first recorded and released in 1967, on the album of the same name by the Beatles. The song appears twice on the album: as the opening track (segueing into ""With a Little Help from My Friends""), and as ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"", the penultimate track (segueing into ""A Day in the Life""). As the title song, the lyrics introduce the fictional band that performs on the album. Since its original album release, ""Sgt."
"The Beatles to record ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" in 1967. Later analog Studer machines were built in 8, 16, and 24-track configurations using tape widths of up to two inches. Sales of analog machines continued into the early 1990s, when they began to be replaced by digital recorders. in this period, Studer introduced the D820 and D827 multitrack models, which employed the Digital Audio Stationary Head standard. However, digital tape formats eventually fell from favor with the introduction of computerized hard disk drive recording systems and software products such as Pro Tools. In the mid 1990s Studer started"
"the early 1980s. Although this was a legitimate release, it was not authorised by the Beatles, EMI or Apple Corps. Following the settlement of Apple's ten-year lawsuit against EMI in 1989, new projects began to move forward, including the ""Live at the BBC"" album and ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It was after the ""Anthology"" project (spearheaded by Neil Aspinall) that the company resumed making significantly large profits again and began its revival. The label was again newsworthy in 2006, as the long-running dispute between Apple Records' parent company and Apple Inc. went to the High Court (see ""Apple Corps v"
"group should have released a single album instead. Nonetheless, ""The Beatles"" reached No. 1 on the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and has since been viewed by some critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. By 1968, the Beatles had achieved commercial and critical success. The group's mid-1967 release, ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", was number one in the UK for 27 weeks, through to the start of February 1968, having sold 250,000 copies in the first week after release. ""Time"" magazine declared that ""Sgt. Pepper's"" constituted a ""historic departure in"
"the content on the release may be different from other releases that use the same name. Some bootleg labels have opted to use different names for the show, with one such release having been titled ""Sgt. Page's Badgeholders Club Band"", being a play on both the ""For Badgeholders Only"" moniker, as well as the Beatles' album ""Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". That bootleg release has since been discovered to have been directly copied from an existing fan-made compilation, made years before, entitled ""Zeppelin Digital Volume 3"". The title ""For Badgeholders Only"" most likely comes from Robert Plant's numerous references"
"After Klein's departure, Apple was managed by Neil Aspinall on behalf of the four Beatles and their heirs. Apple Records' distribution contract with EMI expired in 1976, when control of the Beatles' catalogue—including solo recordings to date by George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr—reverted to EMI (Paul McCartney had acquired ownership of his solo recordings when he re-signed with Capitol in 1975). The original UK versions of the Beatles' albums were released worldwide on compact disc in 1987 and 1988 on the Parlophone label. Previously, ""Abbey Road"" had been issued on CD by the EMI-Odeon label in Japan in"
"Hearts Club Band"". Paul McCartney regarded ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" as The Beatles' ""Freak Out!"" Zappa criticized the Beatles, as he felt they were ""only in it for the money"". ""Freak Out!"" was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, ranked at number 243 on ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of the ""500 Greatest Albums of All Time"" in 2003, and featured in the 2006 book ""1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"". The album was named as one of ""Classic Rock"" magazine's ""50 Albums That Built Prog Rock"". On the 1995 and 2012 CD"
"fans' screams. 'Live Beatles' and 'Studio Beatles' had become entirely different beasts."" The band's concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on 29 August was their last commercial concert. It marked the end of a four-year period dominated by almost nonstop touring that included over 1,400 concert appearances internationally. Freed from the burden of touring, the Beatles embraced an increasingly experimental approach as they recorded ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", beginning in late November 1966. According to engineer Geoff Emerick, the album's recording took over 700 hours. He recalled the band's insistence ""that everything on ""Sgt. Pepper"" had to be"
"2016. Calderstone Productions Calderstone Productions is the London-based subsidiary of Universal Music Group that administers the Beatles' recorded music output which was originally owned by EMI and released on EMI's Parlophone Records (in the United Kingdom)/Capitol Records (in the United States) (1962–1968) and the Beatles' own EMI-distributed Apple Records label (1968–1970). Universal Music acquired the Beatles' catalog with its 2012 purchase of EMI, along with the rights to the EMI and Capitol trademarks, and established Calderstone (initially named ""Beatles Holdco Ltd."") to administer the Beatles' catalog worldwide. As part of the deal, however, Universal was required by regulators to divest"